Euroacademia Conferences
Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers (9th Edition)April 24 - 25, 2020
Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (9th Edition)June 12 - 13, 2020
8th Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions AgainJanuary 24 - 25, 2020
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe (7th Edition)December 13 - 14, 2019
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (8th Edition)October 25 - 26, 2019
Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (8th Edition)June 28 - 29, 2019
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (7th Edition)January 25 - 26, 2019- 7th Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions AgainNovember 23 - 24, 2018
Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers (8th Edition)September 28 - 30, 2018- Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (7th Edition)June 14 - 15, 2018
Papers
Freedom as Non-Domination in the Eurozone: A Republican Assesment of the Eurozone Sudden-Stop Crisis
By bringing together macroeconomics and republican political theory, the paper explores the possibility that the conception of freedom as non-domination can be meaningfully applied to evaluate the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis.A Liberal Intergovernmental Approach to the Establishment of the European Stability Mechanism
Utilizing the research methods of congruence testing and process-tracing, this paper examines LI’s analytical and predictive power in explaining the creation of the ESM.The Impact of the Eurozone Crisis and its Regulation on the Decrease of European Bank Mergers
As a consequence of this presentation, we will be able to infer the general reasons why European bank mergers fail by remaining few and apprehend if this phenomenon it to be attributed to the inefficiency of the Merger Monitoring Authorities.The Myth of a Liberal Brexit: How Brexiteers (Mis)Used History in their Quest for British ‘Freedom’
Ultimately, this paper seeks to problematize and critique the relationship between the wartime British ‘underdog myth’ and the myth of reviving imperial ties, exposing them as fundamentally incompatible and ultimately inaccurate readings of British history. Throughout, the paper will seek to understand what a “liberal Brexit” actually means, and whether a historical approach can help us to understand such an idea.The Role of Conservatism in Development of Right-Wing Populism in Western Democracies: UK Case
The main part of conservative strategy was the co-optation of elements of the political course, first of all, the claim to hold a referendum on Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. Thus, the British case demonstrates that conservatism can play dualistic role. On the one hand, conservatism can act as an ideological resource of right-wing populism, ensuring its ideological equipment; while on the other hand, it can undertake effective strategies, such as co-opting a number of elements of a political course to reduce the electoral positions of right-wing populists.Brexit, History and Education: Recognising Conflict in a Period of Upheaval
This paper seeks to interrogate the role of an international project about the representation of the past, during a period of historic social upheaval and uncertainty, by drawing on George Santayana's assertion (1905) that 'Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness...Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it', and its misrepresentation in wider culture, in order to contextualise the contradictions posed by the project in a time of change and amnesia in the UK.Are “Brexiters” Indeed the Bad Guys? What Can We Learn from the Modern Game Theory and Economics of Federalism?
The paper presents the game theoretical explanation for the Brexit and offers a set of the economic criteria that may be used by the EU policy-makers in order to mitigate the current crisis and to construct an efficient institutional framework on the vertical and horizontal division of competences to address the growing EU’s democratic deficit. The paper also argues that growing political distortions and increasing politicization of the EU will lead to increasing fragmentation and division.The Rise of Ethno-nationalist Populism in Slovenia
This paper suggests that the process of establishing independent statehood were largely based on right wing populist parties’ attempts to differentiate the Slovenian national identity from anything that is seen or considered as Balkan, which became a metaphor for backward and primitive. Exclusionary populism intensified over the last two decades, which will be shown in the paper by employing the case study analysis of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDP).Looking at Right-Wing Nationalism with a Longer Term Perspective: The Lega in Italy
The Lega, founded in 1991 under the name Lega Nord, is amongst the oldest populist and Eurosceptic parties in Europe. An analysis of the history of the party and the evolution of its political discourse allows a better and more context-embedded understanding of its Euroscepticism, especially since in its early years the party’s programme was rather pro-European. he Lega’s sometimes contradictory stances on Europe are the outcome from conflicting dynamics that guide the party’s politics.Populists in the Parliaments: A Comparative Analysis of Populist Parliamentarian Behaviour Concerning European Integration
The subject of my paper is the populist political discourse about European integration within the parliamentary Committees of the Member States. The member states on which I have conducted my analysis are Italy, Austria, and the Netherlands. As selection criterion, I used Arend Lijphart's classification that puts them in the category of consociational democracies. The present work demonstrates the complexity of the European integration discourse and the contradictions present in the single parties and coalitions, the diversity of approaches between the forces of the different states, and the weight of national interests on populists’ political claims.
